Casement's Leftovers

Casement's Leftovers

Serving you hot, socialist, Irish republican takes like you wouldn't believe. New episodes on the last Thursday of every month, plus bonus eps in between.

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September 25, 2025 98 mins

That's right folks. Leo Varadkar — neoliberal prince of darkness, lover of packed lunches, and all-round messy bitch — has written a memoir. Helen and Matt read it so you (and Glen) don't have to. And you really, really don't have to. 

Listen in for all the goss on Leo's very normal childhood, the tough decisions he had to make in office, and his unabashed hatred and suspicion of all poor people! Truly a relatabl...

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2000s nostalgia is en vogue at the moment, so we decided to take a trip back in time to the golden era of the internet, and the time of 'New Atheism'. We talk Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, and discuss how edgy attacks on religion swerved so seamlessly into right-wing populism and "defending Christian society". We then turn our attention to religion in Ireland, before spilling the proverbial on Mother Teresa and...

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July 31, 2025 68 mins

What is the state of feminism today? What are the movement’s goals, aims, and demands? Is it even right to speak of a feminist “movement” at all?

This one gets pretty feisty as Helen, Glen, and Matt debate the different strains of feminist thought of the past 50 years. We talk about TERFs, obviously, but also try to point modern feminism in a more socialist, materialist direction. We discuss Silvia Federici and the Wages For Housewo...

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July 17, 2025 64 mins

Two episodes this month because you've all been so good. It's a loosey one today. Topics covered: Lena Dunham, Epstein and Israel, Tucker Carlson, Conor McGregor's shlong, the CATU protest, trans pride, and much much more. In the back half — for our real fans — we categorise our least favourite races, before standing up for the most discriminated against group of all: bald men. I love the em dash (—) and am sooooo ma...

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So, we've made it: the series finale. It's been a long road, but after two gruelling medium-length episodes, our exhaustive anthropological study of Dublin's illicit gay underground is finally complete. 

Our resident cruisologist Glen dusts himself off from whichever filthy alleyway he recorded yesterday's podcast, and takes a trip to the comparatively idyllic surrounds of the gay sauna. His guide is world-famous...

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Desperately running out of different ways to mark Pride Month, this year we decided to throw caution to the wind and do a two-part series on Illicit Gay Sex. We sent our intrepid reporter Glen deep into Dublin's gay underground to speak to the most sordid, depraved individuals he could find, asking the questions you've been far too scared to ask. 

First up is world-famous drag queen Goblins Goblins Goblins, who agreed (NOT...

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Socialists in the 1920s were part of a global, interconnected network of hope and solidarity. For a brief period, the locus of this transnational movement was the Hotel Lux in Moscow, where international communists — including Irish men and women — lived, hung out, and fell in love. To really capture the hopes and desires of these disparate friends and lovers requires moving beyond dry socialist history, and into the personal lives...

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May 12, 2025 58 mins

Helen and Glen have Beef.

They have beef with each other, they've got beef with Israel, they've got beef with Terfs. They've beef with fascists, they've beef with people who get duped on Facebook but most of all they've got beef with Matt. 

Join a one third lighter, castrated Casement's Leftovers as they shameless call out their haters and have the last laugh. 

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March 26, 2025 60 mins

A lot has happened since we last recorded, so tune in for our thoughts on Helen turning thirty, the Taoiseach turning flirty, and Garron Noone's feelings getting hurty!  

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February 26, 2025 61 mins

Donald Trump loves to talk about tariffs, and people love to panic about them. But what exactly are they? Are they really all that new? And what does Trump's fondness for them say about our the current state of liberalism? 

Listen to this episode for answers to at least one or two of those questions. 

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February 13, 2025 73 mins

It's a new government in the 26 counties! And it's the same as before! 

We unpack the 2024 elections, the new Dáil and we beg you for money for a sound mixer. Enjoy! 

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January 30, 2025 145 mins

They're apparently saying we've been "caught lacking" on the podcast front lately, so to make up for our recent flop era we are giving you all a bumper episode to review the year 2024. We talk all the major events in politics and beyond, plus have a chat about the year's culture with Luke & Eleanor. You may have heard we were "washed", but today we are definitely "goated". 

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November 26, 2024 65 mins

What can we say really 

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November 11, 2024 81 mins

To celebrate 75 episodes of pure socialist republican slurry, we thought we would kick off Season 2 of Casement's Leftovers by returning to the man who first brought us all together: Mark Fisher. The Weird and the Eerie – published just weeks before Fisher's death by suicide in January 2017 – is a work of literary criticism that has always seemed strange to us. We get together to try to make sense of this final work, whic...

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September 24, 2024 58 mins

It was good while it lasted

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Helen and Matt finally conclude their famed Berlin trilogy by speaking to Caoimhe of The Irish Bloc Berlin. A "Berlin-based platform for Irish solidarity with Palestine", the Irish Bloc has been on the frontlines of opposition to Germany's continued support for Israel and the Berlin police's brutal repression tactics. We talk to Caoimhe about the group's organising efforts, but also dig deeper into just why...

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We continue our German urlaub with a very simple question: what the fuck is going on in Europe??

There is no one better to help us with this burning question than Ciarán from the fantastic Corner Späti podcast. Ciarán (like somebody else we know) is an Irish podcaster currently living in Berlin, but he also happens to be the only person in the world who actually understands the EU (editor's note: we fact-checked this...

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July 30, 2024 70 mins

The housing crisis is the definitive social issue of our time, affecting almost everybody across the West in varied and horrifying ways. But how do we go about. solving it?

One seemingly novel idea has been put forward by housing activists in Berlin: simply take properties out of the hands of the massive landlords and place them back under tenant control. In this, the first in our mini-series of episodes recorded live from...

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July 16, 2024 51 mins

The moment you've all been waiting for: Helen's first solo episode! They're joined by Mark Malone from The Hope & Courage Collective (formerly The Far Right Observatory) to talk about the far right in Ireland. 
They talk about the influence of the British far right, the key actors and funders, the gains they made in the local elections and crucially; how to tackle them. 
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June 10, 2024 92 mins

The whole gang is back together for a quick catch-up and a dive into what each has been reading. Glen brings us on a culinary trip through the history of Ireland via Margaret Hickey's Ireland's Green Larder., Helen finds God in John Dominic Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, and Matt disproves the labour theory of value through the divine power of tunes in Jacques Attali's Noise: A Political Economy of ...

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